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nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

2. Yup...

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 05:51 PM

Dec 2012

My medic rig was shot at...bullet went by missing the Oxygen tank by centimeters. (It was a .223)

And that is but one of many...due to the war on drugs.

Then there was the being in a conversation outside a store...boom...I was flat

Or the gun fire the other day outside my window.

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Have you ever been in a situation where you feared gun violence? [View all] Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 OP

Back in college, working as a bouncer, breaking up a fight, benld74 Dec 2012 #1

Yup... nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #2

I recall being surrounded by gunfire on new years in Los Angeles Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 #3

That idiocy always gets to me nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #18

Yup... 2naSalit Dec 2012 #4

Home invader told be he was going to shoot me ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #5

yikes! Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 #7

Was a long time ago. ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #24

When I was a kid our alcoholic neighbor tried shooting a moth off his wall NNN0LHI Dec 2012 #6

No, but I get scared by inattentive drivers every day slackmaster Dec 2012 #8

Yeah but I was somewhere with gun control and when I realized that, I felt a bit foolish gollygee Dec 2012 #9

I was almost shot accidentally by a Barney Fife wannabe deputy my dad knew catbyte Dec 2012 #10

No, just regular old assault and battery, since I used to be on foot a lot REP Dec 2012 #11

Yes, my house is in the forest and DURHAM D Dec 2012 #12

No, but two kids in my high school got in trouble for bringing guns to school. wickerwoman Dec 2012 #13

No Kaleva Dec 2012 #14

Not really. laundry_queen Dec 2012 #15

In the army at Fort Gordon two or three NCOs had private rooms at the end of our doc03 Dec 2012 #16

Yes shadowrider Dec 2012 #17

In a previous life. Iggo Dec 2012 #19

Yeah, but I was in the middle of a war, so that probably shouldn't count ... 11 Bravo Dec 2012 #20

I've been kidnapped at gunpoint (twice) & was a drive-by recipient Nevernose Dec 2012 #21

Yes, it was 36 years ago, but when you get Still Sensible Dec 2012 #22

Sure, the two times I've been robbed at gunpoint Recursion Dec 2012 #23